A fall is an abnormal behavior that rarely occurs, however, once it occurs in a crowded scenario, it is prone to cause local disturbance, density-velocity fluctuations, and crowd instability even leading to a stampede accident. Currently, research on fall behavior mainly depends on single-point detection approach but lacks investigation on disturbing mechanism in a crowd flow. To address this issue, this paper first proposed a pressure dynamics model based on limb-level contact to analyze pedestrian behavioral characteristics. Then, based on the random Brownian motion, the disturbance distribution of fall behavior was determined theoretically. Using two parameters (a pressure coefficient and disturbance intensity), the pressure term of the fluid dynamics Aw-Rascle model was improved, and the internal disturbance propagation model (DPM) of fall behavior was established, as a primary contribution of this study. Further, to eliminate the disturbance propagation in a crowd, damping motion theory was employed. The disturbance elimination mechanism of abnormal behavior was discussed to suppress disturbance propagation caused by a pedestrian fall behavior. To validate the proposed model, both field experiment and numerical simulation were conducted respectively. The stability performance of the proposed DPM was evaluated with standard deviation (less than 0.1631) based on 50 repetitive experiments. Results showed that this study could help discover the disturbance propagation dynamics and elimination mechanisms of pedestrian fall behavior in a crowded scenario.
Disturbance Propagation Model of Pedestrian Fall Behavior in a Pedestrian Crowd and Elimination Mechanism Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ; 25 , 2 ; 1519-1529
01.02.2024
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Englisch
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